Monthly Archives: October 2007

Yeah MSU!

I just skipped to the end of this book I am reading (The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnshon), and I see that one of his two major references is by some people at MSU! I suppose its not a great … Continue reading

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social network for two

I saw this video: http://www.zefrank.com/social_network/alyssa.html and it reminds me that I really need to go along and watch some of the zefrank videos. (via the ITP blogblender: http://blogblender.faludi.com/2007/10/29/the-duck-and-i/)

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Schooled (by better designers)

I finished the design of the laser harp hardware this weekend, and made some good improvements from my first pass design, but even so it is still way too complicated. Because I wanted to allow for a goodly amount of … Continue reading

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Building for the NGW100 Part 2: An easier way

So on my last post about cross-compiling programs for the NGW100, I went through the trouble of setting up a virtual environment to be able to use the provided build environment. I realized today that that is largely unnecessary, and … Continue reading

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Maker Faire Austin

I had the good fortune to attend the Maker Faire that was going on in Austin this weekend. The whole experience was awesome- I got to meet all sorts of Really Cool People with Really Cool Ideas. Here is my … Continue reading

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CyberKicker: A remote-controlled board resetter

Tonights project is a parallel port (!) based eight channel reset controller. The purpose is to enable development boards that have frozen to be rebooted remotely. The interface itself is dead simple, it just connects the data pins from the … Continue reading

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On that note

I should create a new category for my posts called ‘nonsense.’

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